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New England Society for Microscopy
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Volunteer led organization focused on providing microscopy-related activities and events and disseminating microscopy knowledge and skills to anyone interested in the New England region.
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Happy Holidays from NESM!
brandy-syglass.bsky.social Brandy A Freitas @brandy-syglass.bsky.social · 2d
🎄 A canonical visualization dataset, revisited! This #CT Christmas tree (2001) became a classic for teaching & benchmarking volume rendering. I’ve brought it into #syGlass to explore how far #3Dvisualization has come — same data, new method. 🔬 #3DThursday
Story: www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/page/xmas/
December 25, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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For #MicroscopyMonday, we’re excited to welcome Katie Shulenberger as NESM’s newest Director of Physical Sciences! 🎉
An Asst. Prof. of Chemistry at @brandeis.edu, Katie develops spectroscopic methods to study semiconductor nanomaterials and photophysics.
#NESM #Spectroscopy #Nanomaterials
December 22, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Another #MicroscopyMonday intro! Meet Emma Perry, the #NESM Clerk from UMaine @umaine.bsky.social . She manages electron & confocal microscopes at UMaine and studies Maine/NE USA tardigrade biogeography & taxonomy. 📸 Maine tardigrade: Viridiscus perviridis 🔬Amray 1820, CORE #ElectronMicroscopy Lab.
December 15, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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The New England Society for Microscopy is heartbroken by the tragic shooting at Brown University. Academic and research spaces should be safe places to learn, teach, and experiment. We mourn the victims, stand with the Brown community, and are deeply angered by this senseless act of violence.
December 14, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Introducing another #NESM board member for #MicroscopyMonday — Ben Muller, Director of Physical Sciences! He works across surface metrology, microfluidics, thin films, and micro/nanofabrication. He just defended his PhD! 🎉
📸 SEM of modified EGaIn sphere contacts (Harvard CNS).
#SEM #Nanotechnology
December 8, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Happy #MicroscopyMonday! Meet our new Director of Biological Sciences, Mark Scimone, a UNH professor whose work spans neuroscience, optics, and image analysis. He brings experience from Boston Children’s and PSI, plus a passion for microscopy education. #NESM #SEM

📸: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
December 1, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Happy #MicroscopyMonday! This week we're spotlighting Brandy Freitas, our Director of Media and Outreach at #NESM.👏 @brandy-syglass.bsky.social
Brandy is the Director of Data Science at #syGlass, and here is a video of #3Ddata from C Wolff the MBL @mblscience.bsky.social 🔬

#BioImaging #SciComm
November 23, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Happy #MicroscopyMonday! 🧫 This week we're spotlighting Andy Stone, our immediate past-president at #NESM. 👏 @andystoneimaging.bsky.social

Andy leads the Brandeis light microscopy core and is a powerhouse in the imaging community—from BINA to NESM and RMS. 🎥🔬

#LightSheet #BioImaging #STEM
November 17, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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This week's #MicroscopyMonday is a time lapse 3D printing of a mini microscope from the MakerLab at Brandeis University.

🥼 Greg Buckland | Head of Brandeis MakerLab

#MicroscopyMonday #Sciencecommunication #BrandeisUniversity #NESM #Microscopy #Science #3D #3DPrinting
October 27, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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We're up in Gloucester today for the 10th Annual GMGI Science Forum! #NESM #GMGI
October 23, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Tungsten crystals for #MicroscopyMonday from one of our upcoming keynote speakers! #NESM www.nesmicroscopy.org/2025-fall-sy...

🥼: @gewilli.bsky.social, Microscopist
🏛️: Brown University Leduc Bioimaging
🔬: TFS Apreo 2 VS Scanning Electron Microscope, Horizontal Field Width (HFW) = 49μm
October 20, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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It's #MicroscopyMonday and we are only three weeks away from the #NESM Fall Symposium! We still have opportunities for poster and oral presentations for researchers, vendors and core facilities, link here: www.nesmicroscopy.org/2025-fall-sy...

#Microscopy #LightSheet #3DPrinting #SEM #LSFM #SciComm
October 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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For #MicroscopyMonday: “Seeing Every Photon”—a hands-on workshop with Evident Scientific on the FLUOVIEW FV4000 confocal! At the Fall symposium Nov 6-7, learn to capture consistent, quantitative images with SilVIR™ detectors and performance monitoring. #NESM #ConfocalMicroscopy
October 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Excited to welcome MIT’s Julian P. Klein as a keynote at the #NESM Fall Symposium! 🔬 His work uses electron beams to target atoms in 2D materials — here’s a teaser image from his research in quantum engineering.

#MicroscopyMonday #ElectronMicroscopy #QuantumMaterials #Nanotechnology #MIT #SciComm
Stylized graphic of an electron beam, shown as a purple cone with a red bullseye tip, aimed precisely at a single atom in a hexagonal lattice of atoms. The background is a faint atomic-resolution microscopy image, highlighting the idea of targeting individual atoms in atomically thin materials
September 29, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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📣Announcing the Fall Symposium Workshops for #MicroscopyMonday!🎫 Registration is now open here: www.nesmicroscopy.org/2025-fall-sy...

🔬: Hitachi Gemini FE SEM
🥼: Benjamin Muller, PI Giovanni Traverso, MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE)
📝: Feig et al, lnkd.in/ea5M7aET

#NESM #SciComm
September 22, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Announcing one of our Keynote Speakers, Elizabeth Engle, for #MicroscopyMonday! Please join us in November at Brandeis!

🔬: 3i Light Sheet
🐭: Dharmendra Puri, Boston Children's Hospital
🏛️: Harvard Medical School's MicRoN facility
🎬: syGlass.io

#NESM #LightSheetMicroscopy #3DImaging #TissueClearing
September 15, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Announcing registration for the Fall Symposium at Brandeis for #MicroscopyMonday! #NESM
www.nesmicroscopy.org/2025-fall-sy...

🔬: Bruker TruLive3D @brukerspatial.bsky.social
🥼: Amro Hamdoun @hamdounlab.bsky.social ‬, Tzer Han Tan's @tzerhan29.bsky.social group
🌌: Painted Sea Urchin
📷: syGlass.io
September 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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🕷️ A winter tick’s lethal grasp for a late #MicroscopyMonday, captured in stunning SEM by Monica Miles, winner of 3rd place in UMaine’s 2025 Imaging Your Research Contest.

Tiny structures, huge impact on Maine’s moose calves.

#Microscopy #Ecology #Moose #SEM #NESM @umaine.bsky.social
September 2, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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It's #MicroscopyMonday! Today we have a very special confocal dataset that HIGH SCHOOL students were able to label and image themselves at the MBL.

🐟: #Zebrafish
🔬: Nipam Patel, High School Science Discovery Programs
🏛️: @mblscience.bsky.social
🎬: syGlass.io

#NESM #Confocal #SciComm #ScienceEd
August 25, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Dedicated seed pod of Wild Carrot/Queen Anne's Lace/Daucus carota

📷 (Ok maybe 🔬) Hitachi 2700 SEM

More of the #SciArt side.
(I'll be giving a talk about it all in November at the @nesmicroscopy.bsky.social fall meeting, not this plant as much but related)
Scanning Electron Microscope image of a Daucus carota seed pod. Black line on the bottom of 667 μm long for scale.
August 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Tungsten crystals for #MicroscopyMonday! #NESM

⚗️: Tungsten oxide crystals
🥼: Geoff Williams, @gewilli.bsky.social
🏛️: @brownuresearch.bsky.social , Leduc Bioimaging Facility
🔬: @thermofishersci.bsky.social , Apreo 2 VS Scanning Electron Microscope, HFW 8um
August 18, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Announcing our first Fall Symposium speaker for #MicroscopyMonday! Geoff Williams, Brown. #NESM

🌾: Lily of the Valley
🥼: Geoff Williams, @gewilli.bsky.social
🏛️: @brownuresearch.bsky.social Leduc Bioimaging Facility
🔬: @thermofishersci.bsky.social Apreo 2 VS Scanning Electron Microscope, HFW 4mm
Black and white scanning electron micrograph of a Lily of the Valley flower showing three anthers, each with a textured, folded surface. The anthers are suspended above a cellular platform-like base, revealing intricate tissue structure and fine surface detail at high magnification.
August 4, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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A #NESM Save the Date for #MicroscopyMonday! We're happy to announce our in-person Fall Symposium will be held at Brandeis University @brandeisuniversity.bsky.social November 6th & 7th. We're looking for #poster and oral presentations and #abstract submission opens soon!
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July 28, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Are there any other #NESM members heading to Microscopy and Microanalysis in Salt Lake City next week? A few of our board members will be there, would love to meet some fellow microscopists! @brandy-syglass.bsky.social #MM2025
brandy-syglass.bsky.social Brandy A Freitas @brandy-syglass.bsky.social · Jul 24
A medley of modalities for #3DThursday! 🔬: #SBSEM, #Lightsheet, #ExM, & #MicroCT! Come see me at M&M in Salt Lake City. mm2025.eventscribe.net/index.asp

🥼: George Spirou (SEM), Elizabeth Engle (Lightsheet), Ksena Longrin (ExM), Lumafield (microCT)

#VirtualReality #syGlass #MM2025
July 24, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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🐙 This Octopus shifts from deep to active rest while "dreaming" for #MicroscopyMonday. REM‑like sleep (color bursts and twitches) filmed in real time by Horst Obenhaus @octoscience.bsky.social‬, currently a 2025 Whitman Fellow at @mblscience.bsky.social. #NESM

#Octopus #Neuro #SleepScience #MBL
July 21, 2025 at 11:53 AM